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Anastasia is grocery shopping with her father and wonders how much shopping is left to do. "We already have 6 0 % 60%60, percent of the items on our list," her father says. Anastasia sees 1 2 1212 items in the cart.

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Answer:20 items left


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User Beep Beep
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If there are 12 items adding up to 60%, we want to know how many items more it will take to equal 100% So set up this equation 12/x = .6 then solve for x. x=12/.6 x = 20 now that we know the total you can subtract 12 from 20 and get 8, that is the number of items left on the list.
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